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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Matthew Weaver

Doctor warned Valdo Calocane could kill, three years before Nottingham stabbings

Valdo Calocane.
A psychiatrist said Calocane showed no ‘insight or remorse and the danger is that this will happen again and perhaps Valdo will end up killing someone’. Photograph: Nottinghamshire Police/PA

A doctor warned that Valdo Calocane’s mental illness was so severe he could kill someone, three years before he stabbed three people to death in Nottingham, his medical records reveal.

Calocane’s family, who were shown the records only after he was sentenced to indefinite detention in a high-security hospital for the attacks, have criticised the missed opportunities they believe could have prevented the killings.

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